Let me ask you a question. I have a hard drive and transferred all my imovie videos onto the hard drive. I now want to delete all the videos off my mac to free up space on the computer. After I do so, can I still edit the videos that are on my hard drive on imovie or do the clips need to be imported back to the computer to edit them?
@wastnTIMEwastnTIME I have a 1T Firewire 800 drive that all my iMovie and FC files are on. As long as you format the drive as I show in the tutorial. iMovie will see. I did this because my Macbook HD would fill up with all the video. Now I dont store any on my MacBook
Ted, thanks for this. I have a 2T external hard drive with lots of home video on it. Each one of my home video tapes was transferred to it. Some of those tapes were 20 min, some were 2 hours,all sorts of lengths. Each tape was transferred as one .mov file.My question is now I want to make movies using selects from many of the different .mov files. I can use my external drive to store my new movie, but how do I take say just 5 seconds from one of the .mov files & not have to import whole mov?Tnx
@TolucaKevin iMovie will recognize the drive if it is attached and you just open the event and select as you would editing any clip. You can multiple hard drives hooked up and select form any of them in iMovie
This exactly what I done with my previous white macbook with imovie 09
today I got an unibody macbook with imovie 11 and I was trying to read and use video on my external HD no WAY !!!!!!
It's possible to explore my external HD to watch video like you did in your tuto, the directory in my HD is also the same since I followed your tuto to export my video from a cam to an external HD.
But my problem, no way to read/see/use video in imovie 11...
It was not working, then only solution was to reimport all video again from external to external. All video has been move (4h!!!) and (little hang up with imovie) disapeared, I am quite upset with imovie, it quite impressing that you can even indicated where your video are. Those video has been save last year by imovie 09 with my previous macbook. Apple software not really realiable, anyway by chance I did not erase video from my camera.
Always helpful...Thanks Ted! What software program did you use to make that presentation? Camtasia? Are you using a MacBook Pro? What are your laptop specs? Thanks, Mark
@markpalma Mark, That was ScreenFlow - I think that it's an either or choice vs Camtasia. Not sure if one is better than the other. I have an 2.5 year old MacBook Pro with 4 gigs Ram. 200 gig HD 2.4 ghz dual core.
Let me ask you a question. I have a hard drive and transferred all my imovie videos onto the hard drive. I now want to delete all the videos off my mac to free up space on the computer. After I do so, can I still edit the videos that are on my hard drive on imovie or do the clips need to be imported back to the computer to edit them?
wastnTIMEwastnTIME 5 days ago
@wastnTIMEwastnTIME I have a 1T Firewire 800 drive that all my iMovie and FC files are on. As long as you format the drive as I show in the tutorial. iMovie will see. I did this because my Macbook HD would fill up with all the video. Now I dont store any on my MacBook
tedmackel 5 days ago
Thanks for explaining this properly, I will format my External Drive in the Mac Extended version and try again.
bakeblaker01 1 month ago
Ted, thanks for this. I have a 2T external hard drive with lots of home video on it. Each one of my home video tapes was transferred to it. Some of those tapes were 20 min, some were 2 hours,all sorts of lengths. Each tape was transferred as one .mov file.My question is now I want to make movies using selects from many of the different .mov files. I can use my external drive to store my new movie, but how do I take say just 5 seconds from one of the .mov files & not have to import whole mov?Tnx
TolucaKevin 7 months ago
@TolucaKevin iMovie will recognize the drive if it is attached and you just open the event and select as you would editing any clip. You can multiple hard drives hooked up and select form any of them in iMovie
tedmackel 7 months ago
very useful ted, thanks alot.
natd1993 8 months ago
Do you NEED a firewire cable to do this?
TheSostreBros 8 months ago
@TheSostreBros Only if the drive your are preparing is a fire wire drive and not USB
tedmackel 8 months ago
Thanks for taking the trouble to explain it all easy terms. I thought I'd never be able to get all my old tapes to a single place. Wonderful.
bggrice 11 months ago
@bggrice thanks for the comment. I am glad I could help.
tedmackel 11 months ago
thank you so much man this is EXACTLY what i was looking for.
PeppermintBandAid 1 year ago
@PeppermintBandAid Glad I could help. :)
tedmackel 1 year ago
Freed up 60+ gigs on my MackBook Pro Hard Drive.
tedmackel 1 year ago
@tedmackel
Thanks a lot for this great tutorial.
This exactly what I done with my previous white macbook with imovie 09
today I got an unibody macbook with imovie 11 and I was trying to read and use video on my external HD no WAY !!!!!!
It's possible to explore my external HD to watch video like you did in your tuto, the directory in my HD is also the same since I followed your tuto to export my video from a cam to an external HD.
But my problem, no way to read/see/use video in imovie 11...
loubano 1 year ago
@loubano I just put iMovie 11 on my Mac Book Pro and it see my external HD with no problems.
tedmackel 1 year ago
@tedmackel
It was not working, then only solution was to reimport all video again from external to external. All video has been move (4h!!!) and (little hang up with imovie) disapeared, I am quite upset with imovie, it quite impressing that you can even indicated where your video are. Those video has been save last year by imovie 09 with my previous macbook. Apple software not really realiable, anyway by chance I did not erase video from my camera.
Thanks for your help hace a nice day
loubano 1 year ago
I love your video. You need better lighting filing off your iSight camera. :)
tmackel 1 year ago
Always helpful...Thanks Ted! What software program did you use to make that presentation? Camtasia? Are you using a MacBook Pro? What are your laptop specs? Thanks, Mark
markpalma 1 year ago
@markpalma Mark, That was ScreenFlow - I think that it's an either or choice vs Camtasia. Not sure if one is better than the other. I have an 2.5 year old MacBook Pro with 4 gigs Ram. 200 gig HD 2.4 ghz dual core.
tedmackel 1 year ago